Quote

The voice that arises out of the silence is something no one can imagine until it is heard. It roars when it speaks, it lies to you and convinces you, it steals from you and leaves you without a single word of comfort.

Alice Hoffman

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Word
Arise
Lying
Leaves
Roars
Voice
Comfort
Convinces
Speak
Lies
Steals
Without
Single
Arises
Something
Silence
Speaks
Imagine
Stealing
Heard
Convince

More quotes by Alice Hoffman

Image
But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' that was a gift. I understood it was power. The power to think my own thoughts. The power to believe in myself.
Alice Hoffman
Image
Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by
Alice Hoffman
Image
I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us
Alice Hoffman
Image
When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.
Alice Hoffman
Image
All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are
Alice Hoffman
Image
You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.
Alice Hoffman
Image
It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her now.
Alice Hoffman
Image
He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky.
Alice Hoffman
Image
I know who you are in your heart,' Andres said. 'That's all that matters.' And that was it. That was the moment. Now I knew how I would feel if I ever lost him. That was how you knew love. My mother had told me that. All you had to do was imagine your life without the other person, and if the thought alone made you shiver, then you knew.
Alice Hoffman
Image
If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky.
Alice Hoffman
Image
My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage. - Aunt Frances
Alice Hoffman
Image
They weren't true stories they were better than that.
Alice Hoffman
Image
She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.
Alice Hoffman
Image
I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all. In no time, what I wished for, I became.
Alice Hoffman
Image
People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.
Alice Hoffman
Image
I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.
Alice Hoffman
Image
The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe
Alice Hoffman
Image
The sky is already purple the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.
Alice Hoffman
Image
I read Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, all of Shirley Jackson's books, which I loved.
Alice Hoffman
Image
Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.
Alice Hoffman